CHALLENGES 2005-2006
From IPS News - "Europe Looking for a Way Forward
Stefania Bianchi
BRUSSELS, Dec 21 (IPS) - The year 2005 will be remembered as the ''annus horribilis' in the European Union with political wrangling, terrorist attacks, social unrest and natural disasters, and there are questions over how the bloc will progress next year.
Throughout 2005 European leaders clashed over the ''deepening' of European integration versus opening the bloc to more members, economic reforms versus social and trade protection, investing European Union (EU) funds in research and development or in agriculture.
With no agreement on the fate of the bloc's new constitutional treaty in sight after the ''no' votes in France and the Netherlands, disagreements over Turkey's accession and fierce arguments over the multi-annual budget, the EU appears to be in a deep crisis and incapable of finding a way forward. "
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